
Tag: Retro review


Retro review–Ian Fleming’s holiday James Bond novel, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

TRON–Landmark sci-fi, visual effects achievement celebrates 40th anniversary

Retro review–Ian Fleming’s novel Thunderball has it all

Lady in the Lake–You are the star in this classic noir film as fantastic a Christmas movie as Die Hard

Castle in the Air–Donald E. Westlake’s brilliantly funny heist classic returns to print

Retro review–Raymond Chandler’s early hardboiled crime novel, The Big Sleep

Retro review–Erle Stanley Gardner’s Shills Can’t Cash Chips, a twisty, fun, hard-boiled crime story

Retro read–Philip K. Dick’s look at life in 1950s San Francisco, The Broken Bubble

Retro review–Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, and a TCM marathon of Nick, Nora, and Asta for New Year’s Eve

Retro review–Erle Stanley Gardner’s unpublished, “lost” Cool & Lam novel, The Knife Slipped

Retro fix–Outland, Sean Connery’s stint as a cop in a space Western

Retro read–Ian Fleming’s seventh James Bond novel, Goldfinger becomes one of his best-known stories

Retro read–Abraham Lincoln returns as an android in Philip K. Dick’s novel, We Can Build You

Retro fix–Vertigo, Boileau and Narcejac’s novel that inspired the Hitchcock film classic

Retro review–Jodie Foster’s dark and moody horror tale, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, is a fall classic

Retro review–W.P. Kinsella′s baseball classic, Shoeless Joe, a deeper dive into the story that became Field of Dreams

Retro review–Fleming’s fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever

Retro Review–The 25th anniversary of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, the novel adapted by Quentin Tarantino into Jackie Brown

Retro review–Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the big screen again and as epic as ever

Retro Review–Intrigue and amnesia in noir classic “Somewhere in the Night”

Retro review–Double Indemnity writer James M. Cain’s last, “lost” novel, The Cocktail Waitress

Retro Review–Fletch author Gregory Mcdonald’s kidnapping thriller, Snatched

Retro review–Sinner Man, Lawrence Block’s lost, first crime novel

Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown

Retro review–John Hughes’ Mr. Mom, a Michael Keaton comedy classic

Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Ron Howard’s Night Shift

Retro review–PKD’s “Now Wait for Last Year”

Retro review — Our favorite version of a Christmas classic

Retro review–Original The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D, now on Blu-ray

Retro review–Steven Spielberg’s classic “Jaws” on the big screen, 39 years later

Retro review–A fifth of Bond, Fleming’s From Russia with Love

Retro review–The Spy Who Loved Me: Fleming at his worst

Retro review—Grave Descend, one of Michael Crichton’s “lost” adventure novels

Retro review–Ian Fleming’s first novel adapted to film, Doctor No

Retro review–One of Michael Crichton’s “lost” crime thrillers, Zero Cool

Retro review–“Scratch One,” one of eight “lost” Michael Crichton novels coming to bookstores

Because You’ve Never Really Seen “The Wizard of Oz”

Retro-recommendation–Sneakers and River Phoenix, 20 years later

Best of the Best retro review–The theatrical release of The Best of Both Worlds

Retro review–Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel that became Die Hard

Retro review–Philip José Farmer’s steampunk sequel “The Wind Whales of Ishmael”

Retro review–The Warlord of the Air, the proto-steampunk classic

Retro review–Mike Grell’s James Bond graphic novel, “Permission to Die”

Retro review–TCM’s screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense thriller The Birds

Retro review–The Man Who Japed, Philip K. Dick’s third novel

Retro review–Moonraker, Fleming’s third James Bond novel

Retro review–Philip K. Dick’s second novel, The World Jones Made

Retro review–Live and Let Die, Fleming’s second Bond novel

Retro review: Ratking, Michael Dibdin’s first Inspector Zen novel
